FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEBREVARD COLLEGE SPORTS INFORMATIONMonday, February 14, 2011

BREVARD BASKETBALL TO HOST WBCA PINK ZONE GAMES ON WEDNESDAY

Brevard, N.C. - The Brevard College basketball teams will host their annual WBCA Pink Zone™ Day, for the Tornados home games on Wednesday, February 16th, against Lincoln Memorial University. The women’s game will tipoff at 6 p.m. in Boshamer Gymnasium.

The WBCA Pink Zone™ initiative is a global, unified effort for the Women's Basketball Coaches Association's (WBCA) nation of coaches to assist in raising breast cancer awareness on the court, across campuses, in communities and beyond.

All Brevard College basketball players, coaches and support staff will be wearing pink t-shirts, sponsored by the Transylvania Regional Hospital on game day to promote awareness of the disease. All gate proceeds for the Feb. 16 basketball games will be donated to the Kay Yow/WBCA Cancer Fund. Additional donations will also be collected throughout the evening’s festivities.

The Brevard College Student-Athlete Advisory Committee will be selling Breast Cancer Awareness bracelets and the Transylvania Regional Hospital will have a booth set up in the lobby of Boshamer Gymnasium to pass out literature concerning breast cancer. The Peer Health Advocacy Team will also have a booth in the lobby and there will be a starting lineup of Breast Cancer survivors announced in conjunction with the BC women’s basketball team starters in the pregame ceremonies. Halftime of the men’s game will feature a men’s pink fashion show to round out the events of the evening.

The WBCA began the WBCA Pink Zone®as an initiative to raise breast cancer awareness in women's basketball, on campuses and in communities. The late Kay Yow, former North Carolina State University head women's basketball coach, served as the catalyst for the initiative after her third reoccurrence of breast cancer in 2006.

In 2007, more than 120 schools unified for this effort and helped make the inaugural year a success. In 2008, over 1,200 teams and organizations participated, reaching over 830,000 fans and raising over $930,000 for breast cancer awareness and research. The 2009 campaign raised over $1.3 million, reached over 912,000 fans, unified more than 1,600 participating teams and organizations, and saw 56+ schools break attendance records at their event. In 2010, over 1,800 participants came together to surpass $1,045,000 in donations and reached more than 922,000 fans across the nation. Over 22 schools broke attendance records through their participation.

Overall, the WBCA Pink Zone has raised nearly $3.3 Million, has reached almost 2.7 Million fans, and has unified over 4,700 participants in only four years.